The Late Bronze And Early Iron Age Ceramic Sequence At Tell Fekheriye Syria

Author : Costanza Coppini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111075303

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The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Ceramic Sequence at Tell Fekheriye (Syria) by Costanza Coppini Pdf

The importance and primary role of the site of Tell Fekheriye (Syria) has always been emphasized in the research history of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. As known from excavations and written sources, the site was an important centre in the Mittani and the Middle Assyrian periods. However, a systematic study and analysis of the pottery has never been accomplished, although the material offers a local and regional perspective on the ceramic production of a Late Bronze Age urban centre. This book fills this gap, offering an insight into the pottery from the site. The material provides a crucial set of data from Northern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on the Late Bronze Age, and in the phase of power alternation between the Mittani Kingdom and the Middle Assyrian state. This work illustrates the chrono-typological changes in the ceramic assemblages and provides an analysis of the functions related to the ceramic vessels, in context with other findings (sealings). In the end, the analysis of ceramic material as a starting point leads the reader to the investigation of topics related to society and social behaviours, economy, and political assets and administration in this urban centre for roughly 300 years of its history.

Author : Kim Duistermaat
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000125109854

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The Pots and Potters of Assyria by Kim Duistermaat Pdf

This is the first monograph that deals with the Middle Assyrian remains at Tell Sabi Abyad, northern Syria. It offers a detailed description of the ceramics excavated between 1991 and 1998 in the project of Leiden National Museum of Antiquities. The study integrates technological, morphological, stylistic, and archaeological data to come to an understanding of pottery production and use. The book contains seven lavishly illustrated chapters and six appendices presenting the raw data on typology, pottery kilns, archaeometric analyses and functional analyses. The large-scale excavation and the excellent preservation of pottery workshops, tools and kilns as well as the meticulous study of technology and standardization provide a unique insight into the organization of pottery production. The chapter on function and use combines information on performance characteristics, shape and capacity, traces of use, depictions of vessels in iconography and information from texts, in an attempt to reconstruct how vessels were used. In a contribution by Dr. Frans Wiggermann two cuneiform texts from Sabi Abyad dealing with pottery have been published, and a first step has been taken to connect the ceramic repertoire with Middle Assyrian vocabulary. This study will be interesting to Near Eastern archaeologists, ceramicists and Assyriologists as well as to students of craft production in archaeology or ethno-archaeology. Dr. Kim Duistermaat is director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. She has participated in archaeological research projects in the Netherlands, Egypt and Syria, where she directed the Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies in Damascus between 1997 and 2005.

Author : Brian Janeway
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004370173

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Sea Peoples of Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat by Brian Janeway Pdf

Drawing on many parallels from Philistia through the Levant, Anatolia, the Aegean Sea, and beyond, this research begins to fill a longstanding lacuna in the Amuq Valley and attempts to correlate with historical and cultural trends in the Northern Levant and beyond.

Author : Stuart Blaylock,S. R. Blaylock
Publisher : British Institute at Ankara
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912090761

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Tille Höyuk 3.1 by Stuart Blaylock,S. R. Blaylock Pdf

This book presents the structures and stratigraphy of the important Iron Age sequence at Tille Höyuek, a mound at a crossing of the Euphrates in eastern Turkey. The site, which was excavated between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, revealed ten major structural levels of the Iron Age, spanning the period from the 11th century to the 6th-4th centuries BC, as well as earlier and later remains, and the wide exposure of architecture provides a sequence of intelligible and impressive building plans. After the initial discussion of the background and methodology of their excavation, the successive levels are carefully described and fully illustrated. The earliest Iron Age occupation, simple buildings among the ruins of the Late Bronze Age, was followed by a major settlement of the Middle Iron Age, when the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Kummuh was at its height. Most impressive architecturally are a large palatial building centred on a courtyard paved with a pebble mosaic, which was probably built after the Assyrian annexation of Kummuh in 708 BC and continued in use through the seventh, and the excellently preserved Level X with many distinctively Persian architectural features (built in the latter half of the 6th or the early 5th century and probably lasting for a substantial time). The structures and stratigraphy are also important as the context for the first rigorously established ceramic sequence in this part of Turkey, which will be presented, together with the other materials and artefacts, in the companion to this volume (already complete in draft). Lying on the fringes of the Mesopotamian world, and with contacts with North Syria, North Mesopotamia, and the Levant rather than with Anatolia or the Mediterranean, Tille casts vivid new light on the cultural and political history of the region in the Iron Age.

Author : Adelheid Otto
Publisher : Pewe-Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 3935012292

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From Pottery to Chronology by Adelheid Otto Pdf

This volume is the result of an "International Workshop on the Chronology of the Late Bronze Age (15th-13th Century BC) in Northern Syria (Upper Syrian Euphrates Area): Emar, Tall al-Qitar, Tall Munbaqa, Umm el-Marra and Tall Bazi". It took place on May 5-7, 2012 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz. The need for the workshop was felt by the excavators of the mentioned sites, because a considerable number of LBA sites has been investigated in the Upper Euphrates area by now, but the relative and absolute chronology of most sites is still a matter of debate. The workshop in Mainz tried to tackle the problem of the dating of the Late Bronze Age of the Upper Syrian Euphrates region with the most simple and obvious method. The excavators and pottery specialists of the relevant sites were for the first time brought together. Each team was asked to present its stratified ceramic material and to explain their methods of dating: had the pottery sequence been dated by parallel with another settlement? If so, with which settlement? Or had the stratified material been dated by internal criteria, by written documents or by other well datable objects such as seals, tools and weapons, imported pottery or others? Or had it been dated by radiocarbon or other scientific analyses? The defined aim, which was circulated among the participants in advance, was "By putting together and by comparing the relevant stratified material, it should be possible to discern the consistencies and differences within the material and the reasons for them." It was hoped that the date of the relevant levels and of the various destructions would become evident, when the reliability of the dating of the 'Tablet Building' at Hadidi to the 15th century was questioned and when each mission laid open its own dating methods, thereby avoiding the circularity of assumptions that had hitherto prevailed. This was not only achieved, but it was also able to establish new chronological anchor points for the Upper Euphrates valley.

Author : Dominik Bonatz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110691931

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Middle Assyrian Seal Motifs from Tell Fekheriye (Syria) by Dominik Bonatz Pdf

Despite ongoing interest in Middle Assyrian glyptic art, the publications of Middle Assyrian seals and seal impressions from excavated sites in the Near East are very rare. The book is the first to offer a comprehensive study on the seal corpus from an archaeological site historically located in the western territory of the Middle Assyrian state. The seal impressions and few original seals, which were found during the excavations in Tell Fekheriye (Syria), substantially add to our understanding of the iconographic repertory and the use of seals in the Middle Assyrian period. The corpus dates to the reigns of the Assyrian kings Shalmaneser I and Tukulti-Ninurta I in the 13th century B.C. It documents practices of governance and administration in the growing Middle Assyrian Empire, points to activities of high-ranking Assyrian officials and unfolds the pictorial reality of political and ideological intensions. While finding detailed information on unpublished materials, their archaeological contexts and interpretations, the reader is also invited to follow a discourse on art, state and society for which the Middle Assyrian seal motifs from Tell Fekheriye provide an excellent case study.

Author : Melissa A. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 904293011X

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The Late Third Millennium BCE in the Upper Orontes Valley, Syria by Melissa A. Kennedy Pdf

This volume is a revised version of a doctoral dissertation undertaken at The University of Sydney. It examines the florescene of urban society during the mid to late Third Millennium BCE in the northern Levant, focusing on the largely unexplored region of the upper Orontes Valley, specifically the site of Tell Nebi Mend, ancient Qadesh (on the Orontes). This work seeks to explore the role and significance of 'small' regional sites during the Early Bronze Age IV, by presenting a detailed stratigraphic and ceramic analysis of the Tell Nebi Mend sequence from the mid Third Millennium (Early Bronze Age III) through the early Second Millennium BCE (Middle Bronze Age I). One of the principal aims of this work is to construct a detailed ceramic typology for Tell Nebi Mend and the upper Orontes during the late Third Millennium BCE. This stratigraphically anchored assemblage was designed as a foil for the more intensively investigated 'mega-site' sequences of the region, such as Ebla and Hama. It was also designed to explore and examine the development and evolution of regional ceramic horizons and the growth of inter-site interaction that occurred during the later Early Bronze Age. Although this work will not be the last word on studies of the EB IV, the ceramic and stratigraphic information presented sheds new and important light on many of the key research issues that surround the Early Bronze Age IV, such as the nature of the Early Bronze Age III-IV transition and the regional response to the 'collapse' of the Early Bronze Age urban system ca. 2000 BCE.

Author : Bettina Fischer
Publisher : Zero Produksiyon Limited (Ege Yayinlari)
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061600014

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Identifying Changes by Bettina Fischer Pdf

This large volume publishes the Proceedings of the International Workshop Identifying Changes held in Istanbul in 2002 and includes 25 papers which approach the Bronze to Iron Age transition primarily from an Anatolian perspective. Drawing on archaeological material from Anatolian sites, compared and contrasted with that of neighbouring areas such as Cyprus, Crete, Greece and the Pontic and Caucasus, the contributors assess the nature and chronology of 2nd millennium BC cultural change. The papers reflect the major contribution that the natural sciences can make to this question, the need for more research into regional peculiarities and interactions, the need to track population movements and migrations, to investigate the pace of change and evidence for continuity from one artifically labelled period to another.

Author : Jeanine Abdul Massih,Shinichi Nishiyama,Hanan Charaf,Ahmad Deb
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784919481

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Archaeological Explorations in Syria 2000-2011 by Jeanine Abdul Massih,Shinichi Nishiyama,Hanan Charaf,Ahmad Deb Pdf

Syria has been a major crossroads of civilizations in the ancient Near East since the dawn of human kind. This volume brings together scholars involved in archaeological activities in Syria and focusses on the scientific aspects of each explored site, allowing researchers to examine in detail each heritage site, its characteristics and identity.

Author : Karen Sydney Rubinson,A. G. Sagona
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015075654338

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Ceramics in Transitions by Karen Sydney Rubinson,A. G. Sagona Pdf

Papers presented at a workshop held at Barnard College, Columbia University, in December 2003.

Author : Olivier Nieuwenhuyse
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 2503524443

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Plain and Painted Pottery by Olivier Nieuwenhuyse Pdf

This study focuses on a major issue in Near Eastern prehistoric archaeology: the rise of the Halaf culture, ca. 5900 - 5400 cal. BC. The book presents in a detailed, quantified and lavishly illustrated manner the ceramics excavated by the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden at Tell Sabi Abyad, northern Syria. Concentrating on the 1996 - 2000 campaigns, the book also synthesizes much earlier work in order to come to a comprehensive overview. Tell Sabi Abyad thus far remains the only archaeological site in the Near East where the shift from a Pre-Halaf to an Early Halaf cultural assemblage can be followed within a continuous, meticulously stratified sequence. This shift occured during a short-lived transitional stage, radiocarbon dated at 6100-5900 cal. BC, In terms of the ceramics, this transition is characterized by the gradual replacement of plain Coarse Ware by intricately painted Fine Wares, and by numerous innovations in ceramic technology, morphology and decorative style. More than merely a pottery report, the book offers a lively discussion of past and present views on the origins of the Halaf culture. It also places the excavated ceramics in the broader socio-economic and symbolic context of Late Neolithic societies in northern Syria. Using the concepts of feasting and emulation, the study aims to gain insight in patterns of rapid ceramic innovation and change. The book is of interest not only to specialists of prehistoric pottery but to a wider archaeological audience as well.

Author : G. D. Summers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antiques
ISBN : UOM:39015051283797

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Tille Höyük 4 by G. D. Summers Pdf

Tille Hoyuk 3.2 is one of the few Iron Age sites to have been excavated on the River Euphrates between Malatya and Carchemish on the Turco-Syrian border, at a crossing point on the west bank of the Euphrates, an area now almost entirely inundated by a series of dam schemes. It is the only one with a near-complete Iron Age stratigraphic sequence to be published in detail to date. The site was dug between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara as part of the Turkish Lower Euphrates Rescue Project. The excavation revealed important architectural remains of the Early Iron Age, Neo-Hittite, Neo-Assyrian, and Achaemenid periods, spanning the eleventh to the fifth-fourth centuries BC. In this second (and final) volume of the report on the Iron Age levels, the pottery and objects are presented, together with chapters on seals and plant remains, along with a concluding discussion of the material covered in both Tille 3.1 and Tille 3.2. Lying on the margins of the Mesopotamian world, and with contacts with North Syria, North Mesopotamia, and the Levant, rather than with Anatolia or the Mediterranean, Tille provides vivid insights into the cultural history of the region during the Iron Age. Tille 3.2 covers the material culture of Iron Age Tille and aims to draw lessons from the experience of rescue excavation in the context of a major dam scheme in a previously unexplored area of North Mesopotamia (with important implications for the archaeology and chronology of the region), and discusses the significance of the site in its local and regional context.

Author : Arnulf Hausleiter,Andrzej Reiche
Publisher : Ugarit Verlag
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053097484

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Iron Age Pottery in Northern Mesopotamia, Northern Syria and South-eastern Anatolia by Arnulf Hausleiter,Andrzej Reiche Pdf

Author : Ömür Harmanşah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107311183

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Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East by Ömür Harmanşah Pdf

This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (c.1200–850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle.

Author : Stefano Anastasio
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Assyria
ISBN : 2503532888

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Atlas of the Assyrian Pottery of the Iron Age by Stefano Anastasio Pdf

"Assyrian pottery of the XI-VI centuries BC is a very special topic in Near Eastern archaeology for several reasons: it is widely diffused, relates to the expansion of the first real "empire" in Western Asia, and is well-characterized in terms of typology, manufacturing and decoration." "Especially from the VIII century BC on, the Assyrian policy of settlement in conquered regions led to a wide-ranging occupation of all the available landscapes in many of the conquered provinces. The result is a large amount of excavations with materials dating back to that period. The Atlas aims to develop a global typology that can be applied to the whole Assyrian repertory, in order to highlight the main types and to define their precise chronology and diffusion in the various regions conquered by Assyrians." --Book Jacket.